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Donald Trump supporters overwhelmed the Washington Hilton Saturday for the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. Not all party faithful in attendance were pleased with the convention’s offer to Trump to speak, which energized the small party’s usually relatively sleepy convention but left party members greatly outnumbered by supporters of the president.

While Donald Trump mounts an interlocutory appeal that he hopes will end with Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ (D) disqualification from prosecuting him, Willis is challenging the dismissal of several charges against the former president and his allies. In a Thursday filing in Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s court, Willis filed her notice of “cross appeal” to overturn the judge’s March 13 ruling favorable to the defense — this, as the defense guns for the DA’s ouster. “The state’s cross appeal corresponds to the Defendants’ interlocutory appeal of this Court’s ‘ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND DISQUALIFY...

Diminished but not deterred, Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities. Israel initially made tactical advances against Hamas after a devastating aerial bombardment paved the way for its ground troops. But those early gains have given way to a grinding struggle against an adaptable insurgency — and a growing feeling among many Israelis that their military faces only bad options, drawing comparisons with U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They supported Israel’s retaliation for...

One of the co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case would like to modify a February motion to dismiss the indictment in light of what they say is a new argument by the government. In a three-page notice of supplemental authority filed Friday, attorneys for Waltine “Walt” Nauta, former President Donald Trump’s personal valet, say the government recently shifted the statutory authority relied on for count 38 of the superseding indictment. In turn, the defense says, they are providing additional citations that deal with the statutory change. The notice argues, relatively tersely, that special counsel Jack Smith and his team...

Billy Price, the former first-round draft pick for the Cincinnati Bengals, has announced his retirement from the National Football League at the age of 29 due to a severe pulmonary embolism, a condition that nearly cost him his life. Price, who was drafted by the Bengals in the first round in 2018 as a center, revealed that he underwent emergency pulmonary embolism surgery on April 24 to remove a saddle clot that was entering both of his lungs. Pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot gets lodged in an artery in the lungs, blocking blood flow and causing severe health...

She even continued to walk directly through the audience after testing positive for COVID-19.Lady Gaga may lose some of her little monsters after admitting to pushing on with several shows after testing positive for COVID-19. The "Edge of Glory" songstress made the revelation during a Q&A in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23, where she was celebrating the premiere of her Gaga Chromatica Ball concert special, debuting on HBO. And after hearing her confession, some declared "should be in prison" for the unnecessary risks she took on behalf of her crew and her fans. According to People, the artist admitted...

Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died Saturday morning, the Tour confirmed. Murray withdrew Friday late in his second round at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, citing an illness. In a memo to the membership that was released Saturday afternoon, commissioner Jay Monahan wrote: “The PGA Tour is a family, and when you lose a member of your family, you are never the same. There is nothing we can do but mourn Grayson and pray for comfort for his loved ones.” Monahan said that, after a conversation with Murray’s parents, tournament play at Colonial would continue. “They...

While corruption has direct damaging consequences in general on the functioning of state institutions, and in particular on the administration of justice, it decreases public trust in justice and weakens the capacity of judicial systems to guarantee the protection of human rights, and it affects the tasks and duties of the judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and other legal professionals. Therefore, renowned Kenyan lawyer and Pan-Africanism activist, Professor Patrick Loch Otieno (PLO) Lumumba, in a presentation made on Wednesday, May 8,, at the ongoing conference of the African Regional Group of the International Association of Judges cautioned judges to see themselves as...

The latest searing testimony from a freed Israeli hostage confirms yet again the bottomless depravity of Hamas: Amit Soussana, the first captive to speak publicly about these crimes, was raped at gunpoint by one of her captors. The rape was only one of the cruelties Sousanna suffered during her 55 days in captivity; she was beaten and humiliated repeatedly by the terror cadres so beloved of elite academics, famous actors and musicians, the online left, and the goons who block roads and bridges “for Palestine.” These are the same people who believed Shani Louk, the music festival attendee murdered by...

This week, Harvard University has shut down a Bill Gates-funded geoengineering experiment. The controversial Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment, or SCoPEx, run by professors David Keith and Frank Keutsch, aimed to study the potential future implementation of geoengineering by crop dusting sulphuric acid into our stratosphere. Nice. Even if you put aside the almost instant validity such an experiment would give to conspiracy theories like chemtrails and HAARP, it still sounds a bit too much, playing with our thin air like that — in an unprecedented, and potentially catastrophic, manner, too. But let’s not kid ourselves. The plug wasn’t pulled over...

Though he could be earning much more if he had taken up a job in New York, one American chose to settle down in Singapore instead. It's already been six years since he moved to our little red dot but in a recent video uploaded to his YouTube platform, Living in the Lion City, he shared why he took a pay cut to be here. "Believe it or not, it's not because of the salary," he said in the clip published last Saturday (March 16). As he strolled around Gardens by the Bay, he pointed out how clean Singapore is....

Oakland City Council approved funding to hire more tow companies and use the state DOT’s vacant lots.Oakland, California is struggling to deal with a deluge of abandoned vehicles across the city. According to the Oakland Department of Transportation, 13,856 cars were reported abandoned over a six-month period in 2023. The city ran out of space in its storage lots and is renting even more room to hold the excess. In total, Oakland is spending $1 million on storage. Anecdotally, car theft is the root of this problem. ABC7 Bay Area reports the Oakland Police Department will not respond to...

Jonathan Glazer, the director of “Zone of Interest” – his movie about the time Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss’ and his family lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolph Hess’ Auschwitz – used his acceptance speech for his Oscar for Best International Feature Film to reject being Jewish or the Holocaust as reasons for supporting Israel. He should have also received an Oscar for outstanding exploitation of Jewish suffering. Glazer said: “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people....

At the root of the word antisemitism is the word “Semite,” and the Semites were the descendants of Shem, one of Noah’s three sons. Genesis 6:10 tells us, “And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” The Semites were the ancestors of both the Jews and the Arabs. If someone is of Semitic descent, it means that they have either Jewish or Arab lineage. It is worth to note that when the word is used as the compound word, “antisemitic,” it never includes the Arabs but just the Jews. The definition that I have arrived at,...

Former Joe Biden Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki complained popular independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a “problem” for Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. Fellow MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski asked Psaki what RFK Jr. is doing by running for president, and the ex-press secretary joked that she doesn’t want to get into his mind because he “doesn’t believe in science.”Psaki pointed out Donald Trump’s base is loyal and will not vote for anyone else before noting third-party candidates “are a huge, huge, huge problem,” for Biden. “If you look at RFK Jr., it’s the name recognition...

He pleaded not guilty to 12 counts earlier this month as part of superseding indictment over an alleged bribery scheme. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez on Thursday confirmed he would not seek reelection as a Democrat, but suggested he may do so on an independent ticket.Menendez is currently facing a litany of federal charges though he denies wrongdoing. He pleaded not guilty to 12 counts earlier this month as part of superseding indictment over an alleged bribery scheme. Former Menendez associate Jose Uribe has pleaded guilty to seven charges related to the same allegations."I will not file for the...

It is obviously un-American for the government to develop a ‘hit list’ of citizens to mute in the public square through secret pressure on communications monopolies. The Biden administration attempted to distract the Supreme Court from the voluminous evidence of federal abuse of Americans’ speech rights during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri Monday. It sounded like several justices followed the feds’ waving red flag.“The government may not use coercive threats to suppress speech, but it is entitled to speak for itself by informing, persuading, or criticizing private speakers,” said Biden administration lawyer Brian Fletcher in his opening remarks. He...

Bible prophecy is under siege today; it’s become the target of much abuse from both fellow believers and those outside of Christ. Jan Markell’s article on Harbinger’s Dailly, We Are Under Siege Like Never Before, aptly sums up the increasing intensity of attacks on our belief in the pre-Tribulation Rapture, which often overflow to those of us who cherish this hope. Over the past few years, I have noticed an underlying current in teachings that deny what the Bible says about the Rapture, the seven-year Tribulation, and Jesus’ thousand-year reign. They greatly diminish the magnificence of Jesus’ role in end...

President Biden wandered off stage at an Arizona campaign event after he was distracted by a young baby their young mom. The president, 81, made a beeline for the youngster while his campaign manager introduced him at a Mexican diner in Phoenix on Tuesday. 'Well folks, I have to tell you straight up... I like you all, but I couldn't resist that baby,' he told the audience, which appeared to be only a few dozen people.

"Mayors should not be allowed to launder animus through warrants," the former city council member's lawyer told the justices.Sylvia Gonzalez, a former Castle Hills, Texas, city council member, plausibly alleges that she was driven from public life by a trumped-up, politically motivated arrest aimed at punishing her for engaging in advocacy protected by the First Amendment. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered what sort of "objective evidence" she needs to prove that claim. The case, Gonzalez v. Trevino, hinges on how to read the Court's 2019 decision in Nieves v. Bartlett, which added "a narrow qualification" to the general...